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A 185MW/565MWh Tesla Megapack battery has been brought online in Oahu, effectively replacing Hawaii’s last coal power plant.

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A US west coast power producer was unsuccessful in its attempt to cover the cost of compliance with Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) through a rate increase for Wyoming consumers, in a decision by state utility regulators in January.

A new bill to curb predator control used to support grouse shooting and the practice of muirburn on Scottish moorland could lead landowners to switch to activities that produce carbon or biodiversity credits as alternative income sources.

The European Commission should grab the opportunity to propose the EU's 2040 climate target by approaching an upcoming deadline as an economic and security choice, a pan-European think tank has said ahead of the release expected in a few weeks.

Shell’s ongoing retirement spree and signs of a REDD revival for fresh vintage credits dominated voluntary carbon market activity over the past week.

Climate action in the EU is still underreported, especially information that goes beyond pure emissions data to provide insights on longer term trends, a report showed on Monday.

The Polish government will have to tackle powerful coal unions and appease an uncooperative president in order to follow through on intentions to set an end date for coal and target climate neutrality by 2050, according to experts.

Around 10 biodiversity credit project managers have expressed interest in selling units via an online marketplace, following the listing of credits from a company with South American sites, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies face significant barriers to scale, such as upfront capital needs and vastly different permanence and storage potential across activity types, but would grow with supportive policies for integration into carbon markets, according to a recent report commissioned by the Swedish government.

Spanish ports may be buoyed after Algerian banks put an embargo on support for the transshipment of goods through Moroccan ports, countering the dampening effect Spain was expected to see from the extension of the EU ETS to shipping.

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) at a coal-fired power station could help capture 17% more carbon dioxide while reducing energy use by 36%, according to research published Monday.

Campaigners condemn decision as regressive, saying ‘climate change affects whole world, not half of it’

The organising committee for the Cop29 global climate change summit in Azerbaijan in December comprises 28 men and no women, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has announced.

The decision was called “regressive” by the She Changes Climate campaign group, which said “climate change affects the whole world, not half of it”. In contrast, 63% of the members of the organising committee for the Cop28 climate summit, held in the United Arab Emirates last month, were women.

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‘Voracious predators’ threaten honey production and pose risk to biodiversity, says Salvatore De Meo

Italian MEPs are calling on the European Commission to crack down on Asian hornets, which are spreading across some EU countries and killing off bees.

The yellow-legged hornets, native to south-east Asia, were first identified on the continent two decades ago, arriving in France before spreading to Spain, Belgium, Holland, Portugal and Italy, where after first appearing in 2012 they are causing havoc in the country’s northern regions.

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A Libyan oil firm will embark on a reforestation initiative in the first quarter of 2024, aiming to plant one million trees and remove 10 MtCO2 once the programme is complete, it said over the weekend.

German farmers blocked the road leading up to the Brandenburg gate in Berlin in the latest wave of anger against efforts to protect Europe's nature from farming pollution. Government plans have included increasing taxes for farming solutions and cutting subsidies for agricultural products. Farmers in western Europe have fought with increasing ferocity against greener policies, with protests in the Netherlands and Belgium. After previous protests in Berlin in December the government watered down plans to cut subsidies for diesel in farmyard vehicles, but lobby groups are calling for them to scrap them entirely

• Why Europe’s farmers are protesting – and the far right is taking note

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Carbon Pulse has grown its European management team with two new hires and an internal promotion, as the company prepares for the departure of one of its co-founders.

European carbon prices were little changed at midday as the first auction of the year cleared close to the prevailing secondary market price, providing some support after levels had earlier dropped to a new 15-month low, while traders predicted a quiet session due to the closure of US markets for a public holiday.

Octopus Energy invests in scheme which recycles heat from computer data processing centres

Up to 150 public swimming pools in the UK could be offered an innovative way to cut their energy bills by recycling heat from computer data processing centres after a £200m investment by Octopus Energy into a green tech firm.

Tech startup Deep Green has already piloted using energy from processing centres to heat swimming pools, with the concept trialled last year in Exmouth, Devon.

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Federal and New South Wales governments tip $206m into energy upgrades for social housing, and launch Solar Banks scheme for homes unable to access solar.

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